Microsoft Corp. has long seen the value in providing computing and server solutions to small and midsize businesses, although only recently has it put more of its industrial-strength marketing ...

A small business is not necessarily a simple business. That rather basic lesson has taken much of the computer industry far too many years to learn. Successful SaaS vendors have realized that small ...

One is on-premise, the other in the cloud. Right now, they serve different needs, but one day they could merge Windows Small Business Server had its start in 1997 as BackOffice SMS 4.0 and included ...

Windows Server 2003 Release 2, which roughly meets the slated delivery date Microsoft announced last year, offers significant new features including better branch office support, integration of the WS ...

As expected, Microsoft Wednesday introduced a version of its Windows Server OS for small businesses with 15 users or less, filling in what the company sees as a gap in its server offerings. Windows ...

The product, developed under the code name Bobcat, has been redesigned to simplify the installation and deployment for solution providers that serve small businesses. Microsoft executives said the ...

A doctor I know is upgrading his networked medical billing software. The old version worked in a workgroup networking context, but the new version requires a windows 2003 server machine.<BR><BR>I'm ...

Microsoft's revamp of SBS takes the sting out of setup and admin for IT-challenged shops, without sacrificing the functionality that all businesses need A small business is not necessarily a simple ...